Single window clearance for land conversion

TNNDec 24, 2005, 03.23pm IST

Conversion of agriculture land for residential layout formation and other nonagricultural purposes will no longer be trapped in bureaucratic maze. For the state government plans to put in place a single window agency in each district to clear applications pertaining to land use conversion.

For Bangalore Urban and Rural districts, four departments as earlier against the earlier 12 will be involved. For other parts of the state, the number of departments has been reduced to two to make land conversion simple.

"We propose to reduce the number of departments to four in Bangalore urban and rural districts and bring them under the single window agency" , sources said. District special land acquisition officer , Bangalore Development Authority Commissioner or an officer appointed by him, an official from the planning department and commissioners of the respective city municipal corporations will be part of the single window agency" , sources said.

It may recalled here that till recently clearance was required from Special Deputy Commissioners (Bangalore Urban and Rural), Bangalore Development Authority, Bangalore Metropolitan and Rural Development Authority, BIAAPA, Survey Department , Grama Panchayat, District Health Officer, Bangalore City Corporation , Fire Department, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Zilla Panchayat and Bescom. With the new regulation coming in, it would be a cumbersomefree exercise for change in land use.